“ The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ”
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“ Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. ”
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“ Her heart like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ”
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“ I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first. ”
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“ If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. ”
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“ One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves sinful is much increased by religion. God is the God of the Beautiful—Religion is the love of the Beautiful, and Heaven is the Home of the Beautiful—Nature is tenfold brighter in the Sun of Righteousness, and my love of Nature is more intense since I became a Christian—if indeed I am one. God has not given me such thoughts and forbidden me to enjoy them. ”
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“ Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business, namely, his own character and conduct. ”
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“ Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. ”
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“ There are times, and those times many, when the cares of this worldwith no right to any part in our thought, seeing that they are either unreasonable or God imperfect so blind the eyes of the soul to the radiance of the eternally true, that they see it only as if it ought to be true, not as if it must be true; as if it it might be true in the region of thought, but could not be true in the region of fact. ”
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“ Let a man think and care ever so little about God, He does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him making life a good thing to him. God gives him Himself, though he knows it not. ”
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“ There must be hope while there is existence; for where there is existence there must be God; and God is forever good nor can be other than good. ”
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“ The light of our life, our sole, eternal, and infinite joy, is simply God God God nothing but God, and all His creatures in Him. He is all in all, and the children of the kingdom know it. He includes all things; not to be true to anything He has made is to be untrue to Him. God is truth, is life; to be in God is to know Him and need no law. Existence will be eternal Godness. ”
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“ You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,” said the old man: “it is only more life. ”
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“ Then we’re all happy.” “That we are indeed!” answered the princess, sobbing. ”
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“ But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. ”
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“ There must be hope while there is existence; for where there is existence there must be God; and God is forever good nor can be other than good. ”
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“ Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business, namely, his own character and conduct. ”
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“ It is the one terrible heresy of the church, that it has always been presenting something else than obedience as faith in Christ. ”
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“ Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begunthat is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a lifeprocess, selfextending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughlyI do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea. ”
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“ I'm as religious as the next man which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feastdays because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong ”
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